Does anyone know a good narrative poem based on history?
I can offer you a piece I wrote called “Nagasaki Shadows.” “Nagasaki Shadows” has been published as a one-act stageplay, and has been selected to be published in an anthology on solace. You’re welcome to make use of it. Please feel free to send me a message if you have questions. The poem is based upon the bombing of Nagasaki at the end of WWII. Nagasaki Shadows, by D.J. Lachance Quarterback, Nagasaki Shadows. That was my name on the hospital bed, patient chart. I gave it to them. It was the only name I could remember when they asked me who I was. My brother and I used to play in the shadows of our house. Each of us disappearing and reforming, jumping in and out, in and out, until others found us and asked us to play. He died, but I don’t know exactly when. He was killed coming ashore somewhere, but whoever recorded his death was also killed, and his list washed away. I found out about it through a letter from home, but I lost the letter too. I hated them after that, and as part of the
